Nothing says “child-appropriate material” quite like gender-bending underage superheroes. At least that’s the theory over at the Hub, the network co-owned by Discovery and Hasbro, which is trotting out its latest soon-to-be-dud, SheZow. That show follows the adventures of a 12-year-old boy named Guy who uses a magic ring to transform himself into a crime-f!ghting girl. Yes, you read that correctly. When Guy says the magic words – “You go girl!” – he becomes SheZow, wearing a purple skirt and cape, as well as pink gloves and white boots.

The chief executive of the Hub, who may or may not have been high (and leftist) when she greenlit this project, is Margaret Loesch. Loesch commented, “When I first heard about the show, my reaction was ‘Are you out of your minds?’ Then I looked at it and I thought, ‘This is just funny.’”The target audience for the Hub is children aged two to eleven.

Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).

Personally I dont have an issue with it at all. I dont like it but kids get their world view from cartoons along with personal exp. Kids need to know that it is ok for them to feel this confusion when being a guy and wanting to be a girl or identifying with female while being a male (or vice verse).

I may be wrong but it seems like you are eluding too kids being TURNED LGBT.....you cant be further from the truth IMO. People are born a certain way and at times that way does not jive with how they are actually viewed.

Personally I dont have an issue with it at all. I dont like it but kids get their world view from cartoons along with personal exp. Kids need to know that it is ok for them to feel this confusion when being a guy and wanting to be a girl or identifying with female while being a male (or vice verse).

I may be wrong but it seems like you are eluding too kids being TURNED LGBT.....you cant be further from the truth IMO. People are born a certain way and at times that way does not jive with how they are actually viewed.

this crap is GEARED for 2-12 year olds not impressionable teens. A child's innocence is irrelevant now I see.

that show follows the adventures of a 12-year-old boy named Guy who uses a magic ring to transform himself into a crime-f!ghting girl. Yes, you read that correctly. When Guy says the magic words – “You go girl!” – he becomes SheZow, wearing a purple skirt and cape, as well as pink gloves and white boots.

The commenters at the Washington Times, also true to form, have been busy lamenting the “demented and perverted fabricated paradigm based on destructive human behavior” — of cartoon superheroes. GLAAD’s Rich Ferraro, meanwhile, has called the outraged reaction “laughable.”

Oh, it’s beyond laughable. We live in a country in which we make blockbuster movie franchises around a boy who becomes part arachnid and nobody blinks an eye. When I was growing up, we had the Wonder Twins. And did anybody protest whenever Zan turned into an ice unicycle? Not once. But put a male in a dress and it’s all, oooh, they’re going to indoctrinate our children.

Think about the implications here – conservatives would rather a boy turn into a bucket of water than be any way effeminate. And by the way, if the folks at Breitbart want to flip out over what constitutes “child-appropriate material,” they might want to do a rethink of that cross-dresser “Huckleberry Finn,” or ask themselves how their parents ever let them watch that habitual drag queen Bugs Bunny.

Not only is there a long and respectable history of boys dressing as girls in children’s entertainment, but the gist of the “SheZow” is pure classic superhero mythology – the wrong person marked for greatness.

She-Zow's not a trans3xual. I already watched the first episode when it aired in Australia or whatever, the main character just transforms and gets a girl's uniform with a wig. Basically cross dressing. Nothing different than Bugs Bunny or the other male cartoon characters we grew up with doing the exact same thing. Show has far too many puns though.

This sh*t is ridiculous. If I had a son I wouldnt want him going around saying "you go girl" and pretending he was a superhero named SheZow. Kids imitate what they see, especially at such a young age. The last thing I need is my son thinking its normal for a boy to parade around in a pink dress.